Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of "a smaller harvest than in 1960 due to particularly unfavorable weather conditions." But this excuse hardly convinced many East Germans who knew that neighboring Poland, with similar weather, produced record crops in 1961. The real difference: Poland had soft-pedaled collectivization, permitted the farmers to till their own land; Ulbricht's regime, on the other hand, was still trying to force an unwilling peasantry to work in a harsh collective farm system...
...worth of Canadian grain over the next 2½ years. Canada's qualms in the matter are more economic than ideological, turning on the Communists' ability to pay. But on terms of 25% down, the rest in nine months, Canada already had $83.2 Red millions in the till at year...
...years, and no traffic engineer is going to stop me now!"). On downtown street corners, Barnes instituted the scramble plan (first tried in Vancouver, B.C. in the late '30s), in which all traffic lights turn red and the pedestrians are permitted to cross every which way till the lights switch back to normal red-and-green sequence. The plan was instantly labeled "Barnes's Dance," but it worked...
...dream house, and Director Jack (Room at the Top} Clayton, sensitively seconded by Cameraman Freddie Frances, has filled every coign and corridor with a dangerous, intelligent darkness. Moreover, the main performances are most capably carried off. Actress Kerr, with steely control, tunes herself like a violin string till she quivers exquisitely at the snapping point; and the dear children are just what Author James imagined-faces that shine like bright new pennies till the watcher begins to wonder uneasily about the other side of the coin...
Died. William Ellsworth Hoy, 99, baseball's oldest former major leaguer who between 1888 and 1902 played for the Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox; of a stroke; in Cincinnati. Deafened when two years old by spinal meningitis, Hoy did not learn to speak till his wife taught him at 36, retained a lifelong preference for sign language, and in the blunt innocence of a bygone age was affectionately dubbed "Dummy" by his teammates...